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A II AY the New Year be a b^-Ppy one to 
* * *■ you, happy to maoy n)ore whose 
bappiness depends on you ! So may each) 
year be happier than the Mast, and not 
tb© rT)eanest of our bret^fer) or sisterhood 
debarred tb^ir rightful sbare. in what our 
Great Creator formed them to enjoy. 

THE CHIMES. 



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byOeWolfe.Fiske a Co. 



JANUARY 



We are bound by every rule of justice and equity 
to give thie New Year credit for being a good one, 
until be proves himself unworthy the confidence 
reposed in him. the new year. 



1st. 



2d 



3d 



4th 



5th 



6th 



JANUARY 



!t is clear that a family of six, not including a 
domestic, cannot live upon air. david coppcrfield. 

No hand cao make the clock which will strike 
again for me tbe hours that are gone. 

THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH. 



7th 

8th 

9th 

10th 

11th 

1 2th 



JAN U ARY 



Thinking begets thinking. oliver twist. 

Truth and honesty, liKe precious stones, are per- 
haps more easily imitated at a distance, when the 
counterfeits often pass for real. Nicholas mckleby 



13th 



I4th 



!5th 



16th 



17th 



18th 



JAN U ARY 



We do good by stealth and blush to find it meo- 
tioned Iq our little bill. oavid copperfielo. 

The heart where self has found qo place and 
raised no throne, is slow to recogoize its ugly preseQce 
when it looks upon it. martin chuzzlewit. 



19th 



20th 



2Ist 



22cl 



23d 



24th 



JAN U ARY 



The heart is oot always a royal mint, with patent 
machioery, to worK its roetal into curreot coin. 



MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT. 



To tb© young this is a world of action, not For 
moping and drooing in. david oopperfield. 



25th 



26th 



2Tth 



28th 



29th 



30th 



JAN U ARY 



My advice is oever to do to-morrow wbat you can 
do to-day. Procrastination is tbe tbief of time. 

DAVID COPPERFIELD. 

1 feels the sufferings of other people more than 1 
feels my own, though not one mayn't suppoge it. 

MARTIN OHUZZLEWIT. 



3!st 



10 




Caleb Plummer aod Bert! 



rHE CRICKET ON THE HEAHT^ 



FEBRUARY 



In very roany cases of friendship, or what passes 
for it, the old axiom is reversed, aod like clings to 
unlike more than to liRe. martin chuzzlewit. 



1st 

2d 

3d 

4th 

5th 

6th 

12 



FEBRUARY 



We are not all arrayed Iq two opposite ranks: 
the of-fensive and the de-fsr)slve. Some few tbere 
are who walk between ; who help the needy as they 
go; and take no part on eitber side. 

MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT. 



7th 



8th 



9th 



lOth 



11th 



12th 



FEBRUARY 



An)ong meo wbo bave sound and sterling quali- 
ties, there is nothiog so contagious as pure openness 
of heart. Nicholas nickleby. 



13th 



14th 



15th 



16th 



17th 



18th 



FEBRU A RY 



Every man came into tbe world for something. 

BARNABY RUDQE. 

Tears are not the only proofs of distress, oor the 
best ones. pickwiok papers. 



I9th 

20th 

21st 

22d 

23d 

24th 

15 



FEBRUARY 



" I am however delighted to add tbat I have now | 

an immediate prospect of soroethiog turning up." I 

DAVID COPPERFIELO. _i 

i 

If you can't get to be uncommon through going j 

straight, you'll never get to do it through going ' 

crooked. qreat expectations- 



25th 



26th 



27th 



28th 



29th 



16 




God bless us eMzry ooe." 

CHRISTMAS CAROL. 



MARCH 



Now we lift our eyes up and looK hopefully at the 
distance! The world Is before you; and it is most 
probable, that as you enter it, so it will receive you. 
Trust in nothing but io Providence and your own 
efforts. Never separate the two. bleak house. 



1st 

2d 

3d 

4th 

5th 

6th 

16 



MARCH 



Far be it from me to assert tbat what everybody 
says must be true. Everybody is, often, as liKely to 
be v\/rong as rigFit. the haunted man 



7th 



8th 



9th 



10th 



11th 



12th 



19 



MARCH 



Even the cheap deligbts of childbood roust be 
bought and paid for. the old curiosity shop. 

!o our judgments, as in our doings, we roust bear 
and forbear. habd times. 



13th 
14th 
15th 
16th 
17th 
18th 

20 



MARCH 



If I didn't tell her 1 loved her, \Vh8re would be 
the use of roy being in love? martin chuzzlewit. 

Regrets are tb® natural property of grey hairs. 

MARTIN CHOZZLEWIT. 



19th 

20th 

21st 

22d 

23d 

24th 

21 



MARCH 



Let us be aroong the few who do tbQir duty. 

MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT. 

What's the use of putting things off ? StriKe 
while the iroo's hot. barnaby rudqe. 



25th 



26th 



27th 



28th 



29th 



30th 



22 



MARCH ] 



As 1 have observed that Time coofuses facts 
occasionally, 1 hardly knov\/ v\/hat weight to give to 
its authority. the battle of life. 



31st 



23 




May the New Year be a bappy one." 

TH£ CHIMES. 



APRIL 



There are dark shadows on earth but its ligbts 
are stronger in contrast. p.ckw.ck papers. 

Tbings cannot be expected to turn up of them- 
selves. We must, in a measure, assist to turn them 

•"•P- DAVID COPPERFIELD. 



1st 

2d 

3d 

4th 

5th 

6th 

25 



APRIL 



"Along with the figure-head of Hope," said the 
Captain, "there's a anchor; but what's the use of 
my haviog a aocbor, if I can't find no bottom to let 

it go in." OOMBEY & SON. 



7th 



8th 



9th 



10th 



11th 



12th 



APRIL 



We must meet reverses boldly, aod not suffer 
them to frighten us. dav.o copperfield, 

"We eats our biled rT)utton without capers, aod 
doo't care for horse-radish ven ve can get beef." 

PICKWICK PAPERS. 



13th 
14th 
15th 
16th 
17th 
18th 

27 



APRIL 



Tbere's romaoce enough at home, witbout going 
half a tT)ile for it; only people never thinK of it. 

PIOKWICK PAPERS 

Be bappy in the good you have won, and in the 
good you do. the haunted man. 



I9th 



20th 



21st 



22d 



23d 



24th 



APRIL 



I dido't say I uoderstood her, 1 wouldn't have the 
presumption to say that of any woman. It's not so 
easily doQe. basnaby rudqe. 



25th 



26th 



2Tth 



28th 



29th 



30th 



29 



APRI L 



Everything has an end. Even young ladies in love 
cannot read their letters forever. barnaby rudqe. 

"Coaches, Sammy, is like guns — they requires to 
be loaded with very great care afore they go off." 

PICKWICK PAPERS. 



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30 




At the Holly-tree Inn. 



MAY 



If there were no such thing as display io the 
world, my private opinion is, and 1 hope you agree 
witb me, that we njight get on a great deal better 
than we do, and might be iofinitely more agreeable 
company than we are. the battle of life. 



1st 



2d 



3d 



4th 



5th 



6th 



MAY 



If you have Friends in adversity, stand by them. 

OUR MUTUAL FRIEND. 

in journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier to 
go dov/Q hill than up Nicholas nickleby. 



7th 

8th 

9th 

10th 

11th 

12th 

33 



MAY 



"What are we," said Mr. Pecksniff, "but coaches? 
Some of us are slow coaches ; soroe of us are fast 
coaches. Our passions are the horses, and rampaot 
animals too! And Virtue is the drag! "We start from 
the Mother's Arm's, and we run to the Dust Shovel." 

MARTIN CHUZZLEWiT. 



13th 



14th 



15th 



16th 



17 th i 

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18th 

34 



MAY 



If you have the abilities of ail the great men, past 
and present, you could do nothing well without sin- 
cerely meaning it and setting about it. 

BLEAK HOUSE. 



19th 

20th 

21st 

22d 

23d 

24th 

35 



MAY 



It is difficult to smile with an aching beart. 

PICKWICK PAPERS. 

"You raytber vant somebody to looK arter you, 
sir. ven your judgroent goes out a wisitin'. 

PICKV/ICK PAPERS. 



25th 



26th 



2Tth 



28th 



29th 



30th 



36 



MAY 



Let us give everything their due. 

NICHOLAS NIOKLEBV.. 

Keep up appearances whatever you do. 

MARTIN CHUZZLEWPT. 



31st 



37 




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PICKWICK PAPERS. 



JUNE 



Spring flew swiftly by, and summer came. * * * 
The earth had donned her mantle of brightest greeo, 
and shed her richest perfumes abroad. It was the 
prime and vigour of the year; all things were glad 
and flourisbing. - ol.ver tw.st. 



1st 

2d 

3d 

4th 

5th 

6th 

39 



JUNE 



"Chops! Gracious heavens! And tomato sauce! 
Gentlemen, is tb© happiness of a sensitive and con- 
fiding female to be trifled away by such shallow 
artifices as these." pickwick papers. 



7th 



8th 



9th 



lOth 



1 
11th ' 



i2th 

40 



JUNE 



No one is useless in this world ♦ * ♦ ^^ho 
lightens the burden of it for anyone else. ' 

OUR MUTUAL FRIEND. J 

It is oot OQ earth that Heaven's justice eods. 

THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP. '1 



13th 
14th 
15th 
16th 
I7th 
18th 

41 



JUNE 



Hope is said by the Poet to be the nurse of young 
Desire. martin chuzzlewit. 

The hill has not yet lifted its face to beaveo that 
perseveraoce will not gain the summit of at last. 

NICHOLAS NICKLEBY. 



19th 

20th 

21st 

22d 

23d 

24th 

42 



JUNE 



It seems to n)e, after maturely thinking it over, 
tinat tbe best amends for iiaviog got out of tFie 
square is to get back into the square. 

OUR MUTUAL FRIEND. 



25th 



26th 

27th 

28th 

29th 

30th 

43 



JUNE 



What 1 say I stick by. Nicholas nickleby. 

Society is perhaps a little roercenary, you koow. 
roy dear. little oorrit. 



44 




I'm arA'dy^ 



,fi on. 

BLEAK HOUSE. 



JULY 



It was deligbtful weather. The green coro waved 
so beautifully, tbe ^arKs sang so joyfully, the hedges 
were so full of wild flowers, the trees were so thickly 
out in leaf, tbe bean Fields, with a light wind blowiog 
over them, filled the air with such a delicious fra- 
grance. BLEAK HOUSE. 



1st 



2d 



3d 



4th 



5th 



6th 

46 



JULY 



All good luck and happiness. martin ohuzzuewit. 

Many a gentleman lives upon a soft head, who 
would find a beart of the same quality a very great 
drawback. Nicholas nioklebv. 



7th 

8th 

9th 

lOth 

nth 

12th 

47 



JULY 



People need to rise early, to see the suq in all his 
splendour, for his bnghtoess seldom lasts the day 
through. pickwick papers. 



13th 
14th 
1 5th 
16th 
17th 

18th 

48 



JULY 



Wbat a blessing to have ready wit * * * and 
ready money to back it. Nicholas nickleby. 

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the 
self-swindlers. qheat expectations 



19th 

20th 

21st 

22d 

23d 

24th 

49 



JULY 



If we all did wbat we uQdertake to do, as faith- 
fully as Herbert did, we migbt live in a Republic of 
the Virtues. great expectations. 



25th 

26th 

27th 

28th 

29th 

30th 

50 



JULY 



find so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless us, every 

one ! A CHRISTMAS OAHOL. 

Rich folKs may ride on camels, but it aio't so 
easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye. 

MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT. 



31st 



51 




We all bave soroe bright days." 

NICHOLAS NICKLEBY. 



AUGUST 



Young women are coQtradictory creatures in some , 

thiogs * * * but their hearts are soft and kind. I 



1st 



2d 



3d 



4th 



5th 



6th 



DAVID COPPERFIELD. 



53 



AUGUST 



When 1 take a geotleman to my house, no matter 
whether he is nineteen, twenty-nine or ninety, 1 take 
him there io a spirit of confidence. 

DAVID COPPERFIELO. 



7th 



8th 

9th 

10th 

nth 

12th 

54 



AUGUST 



Pride is one of tbe seven deadly sins; but it can- 
not be tbe pride of a mother in ber ciiildren. for that 
is a compound of two cardinal virtues — faith and 

hope. NICHOLAS NICKLEBY. 



13th 



I4th ] 

' '] 

\ 

15th 



16th 



17th 



18th 

55 



AUGUST ] 



What a blessed thing it is— living in a wale— to be 
contented! What a blessed thing it is to roaRe sick 
people happy in their beds, and never miQd one's 
self as long as one can do a service. 

MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT. 



19th 



20th 

21st 

22d 

23d 

24th. 

56 



AUGUST 



"There is rayther a change for the worse," as the 
gen'l'man said, w'en he got two doubtful shillin's and 
sixpenn'orth o' pocket pieces for a good balf croWQ. 

PICKWICK PAPERS. 



25th 



26th 

27th 

28th 

29th 

30th 

57 



AUGUST 



Let no mao turn aside, ever so slightly, froro tbe 
broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that 
he is justified by tbe goodness of his end. 

BARNABY RUDQE. 



31st 



58 




Liverything works for the best." 

DOMBEV & SON. 



SEPTEMBER 



Hedges, fields and trees, hill and moorland, pre- 
sented to tbe eye their ever-varying shades of deep 
rich green; scarce a leaf had fallen, scarce a sprinkle 
of yellow nningled with the hues of sumroer, warned 
you that autumn had begun. piokwick papers 



1st 



2d 



3d 



4th 



5th 



6th 

60 



SEPTEMBER 



Conscience is an elastic and very flexible article, 
which will bear a deal of stretching and adapt itself 
to a great variety of circumstances. 

THE OLD CURIOSITV SHOP. 



7th 



8th 



9th 



10th 



nth 



12th 



61 



SEPTEMBER 



Of all fruitless errands, sending a tear to look '! 

after a day that is gone is the most fruitless. j 

NICHOLAS NICKLEBY. 

Loveliness is a pleasant thing — when it don't lead ' 

to spending money mahtin oHU2rLEwiT. ; 



13th 

14th 

15th 

16th 

17th 

18th 

62 



SEPTEMBER 



Our life is not too easy perbaps: taken altogether, 
it will bear any little smoothing we can give it. ; 

TKE BATTLE OF LIFE. J 

i 

it is a poor heart that never rejoices; and our 
bearts are not poor ? No ! martin chuzzlewit. 



19th 



20th 



21st 



22d 



23d 



24th 

63 



SEPTEMBER 



i 

Aoy man can be in good spirits wheo he is well ] 

dressed. There ain't nnucb credit in that. If 1 was \ 

very ragged and very jolly, then 1 should begio to feel i 
I bad gaioed a point. martin cmuzzlewit. 



25th 
26th 

2Tth 

i 

I 

28th I 

29th I 

30th , 

64 i 



SEPTEMBER 



Constancy in love is a good tbing; but it meaos 
Qothing, and is nothing, without coQstaocy in every 
Riod of effort. bleak house. 

I will do my duty v\/hile \ can. 

A TACE CF TWO CITIES. 



65 




Little Nell and ber Grandfather. 

OLD CURIOSITY SHOP. 



OCTOBER 



In. trickery, evasion, procrastination, spoliation, 
botheration, there are iQfluences that can never come 

to good. BLEAK HOUSE. 

In love of home the love of country has its rise. 

THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP. 



1st 



2d 



3d 



4th 



5th 



6th 



67 



OCTOBER 



God help the man whose bsart ever changes with 
the world. barnaby r-jdqe. 

Tbe precious moroents is a flyin" fast. 

MARTIN OHUZZLEWIT. 



7th 
8th 
9th 
10th 

nth 

l-2th 

68 



OCTOBER 



Scattered wits take a IbQg time pickiog up. 

QRCAT EXPECTATIONS. 

A wedding is a licensed subject to joKe upon, 
there really is no great JoKe ir) the roatter at all. 

PICKWICK PAPERS. 



13th 
14th 
15th 
16th 
17th 
I8th 

69 



OCTOBER 



A gridiron is a gridiron * » * and you may 
name it what you like, but a gridiroo it will come 
out, either by your leave or against your leave, and 
you cao't help yourself. great expectations 



!9th 



20th 



21st 



22d 



23d 



24th 

70 



OCTOB ER 



EXity — Begin it early, ar)d do it well ; and there is no 
antecedent to it io aoy origin or station, that 
will tell against us with the fllroighty, or with 
ourselves. i.ittle dobrit. 



25th 

26th 

27th 

28th 

29th 

30th 

71 



OCTOBER 



CouQtry! Nonsense! What can you get in tb© 
country but new-laid eggs and flowers. 

NICHOLAS NICKUE8Y 

Strewing the path with smiles, in tb® abseoce of 

flowers. OUR MUTUAL FRIEND. 



31st 



72 




1 ne aay sported by us." 

DAVIO COPPEBFIEUD. 



NO VEM BER 



If you entertain the supposition that aoy real 
success, in great thiQgs or in small, ever was or could 
be, ever will or cao be, wrested from Fortune by fits 
and starts, leave that wrong idea bare. 



BLEAK HOUSE. 



ist 

2d 

3d 

4th 

5th 

6th 

74 



NOVEM BER 



There never were greed and cunning in the world 
yet, that did oot do too much, and over-reach them- 
selves. OAVIO OOPPERFIELD. 

If we are not siocere, we are oothing. 

BARNABY RUDQE. 



7th 
8th 
9th 
10th 

nth 

12th 

75 



NO VEM BER 



Memory, however bod, is tbe best aod truest link 
between this world and a better. Nicholas nickleby. 

Do not allow a trivial misuoderstanding to witber 
the blossoms of spriog. bleak House. 



13th 

14th 

15th 

16th 

17 th 

18th 

76 



NOVEMBER 



It is a melancholy truth that great men have 



their poor relations. 



BLEAK HOUSE. 



We never know the v\/alue of some wines and fig- 
trees till we lose 'em. 



BARNABY RUDQE . 



19th 

20th 

21st 

22d 

23d 

24th 

77 



NOVEMBER 



Forgiveness is a higin quality, an exalted virtue. 

MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT. 

Take nothing on its looks, take everything on 
evidence. There's qo better rule. great expectations. 



25th 
26th 
27th 
28th 
29th 
30th 

78 



NOVEM BER 



Subdue your appetites, my dear, and you've con- j 

Quered human natur". nioholas nioklebv. i 

j 

Tbe shadows of our own desires stand between J 

us and our better angels. barnaby huooe. ' 



79 




"All people have their trials." 

NICHOLAS HICKLEBY. 



DECEMBER 



To njake one's sweecbeart miserable is well enough jj 

and quite right, but to be n^ade miserable one's self ' 

Is a little too mucb- barnaby rudqe, ] 

\ 
Every rrjan of true genius has his peculiarity. , 

MAKTIN CHUZZLEWIT. 



1st 



2d 



3ci 



4th 



5th 



6th 



81 



DECEM BER 



Tiroe and tide will wait for no man, saith the 
adage, but all men Inave to wait for time and tide. 

MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT. 

Industry is tbe soul of business and tbe Keystone 
of prosperity. barnaby rudqe. 



7th 



8th 



9th 



10th 



11th 



I2th 



82 



DeCEM BER 



Tbere must have been some few occurences in 
tbe past year to which we can look back with a 
srr)ile of cheerful recollectiOQ, if not with a feeling of 
heartfelt thankfuloess. the new year. 



13th 
14th 
15th 
16th 
17th 

18th 

83 



DECEM BER 



We measure njan's life by years, and it is a solemn 
koell that warns us we have passed another of tbe 
landmarks whicb stand between us and the grave. 

THE N£W YEAH. 



I9th 



20th 

21st 

22d 

23d 

24th 

84 



DECEMBER 



Numerous indeed are the hearts to which Christ- 
mas briQgs a brief seasoQ of happioess and enjoyment. 

THE OLD OURIOSITY SHOP. 

Our life on it, but your Christmas shall be merry, 
and your new year a happy one ! a christmas dinner. 



25th 



26th 



27th 



28th 



29th 



30th 



DECEMBER 



Christmas has come 'round, and the uokind feel- 
ings that have struggled against better dispositions 
during the year, have melted away, before its geoial 
influence, like half-formed ica beneath the rooming 

5^^- A CHRISTMAS DINNER. 



3lst 



I 
86 1 



WE ALL change, but that's with) Time; 
Time does bis work honestly. qqcI 
1 don't mind hirt). A fig for Time. Use 
bim well and he's a hearty fellow. oQd 
scorns to h)ave you at a disadvantage. 

MaQy happy new years, uQbroKen 
friendship, great accurT)ulation of cl^eerful 
recollectioQs, affection on eartb. agd 
hjeaveo at last for all of us. 



87 



NOTES 



1 would rather bave the affectionate regard of 
my fellow n)en. than 1 would have heaps and« mines 

of gold. SPEECHES, LfTEHARY AND SOCIAL. 

Let them tak' us as they find us. Nicholas niokleby. 



cwc: 

88 



NOTES 



We can see no mora to the bottom of the next 
few hours than we can see to the bottom of this j 

river. great expectations. 

Things pass away like a tale that is told. 

THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP. 

I 

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89 



NOTES 



There car) be no disparity in marriage like unsuit- 
ability of mind and purpose. david coppe^field. 

Anythiog tbat makes a noise is satisfactory to a 

crowd. OLD CURIOSITY SHOP. 



90 



NOTES 



True greatness of soul sympathizes with true 
greatness of soul all the world over. 

MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT. 

A roan can't help his Feelings. great expectations 



91 



NOTES 



Witb what ease a good man may be coosoled 
under circumstances of failure and disappointroeot. 

MARTIN OHUZZLEWIT. 

Manifold are the cares of wealth and state. 

LITTLE OORRIT. 



92 



NOTES 



To remerober happioess whicb cannot be restored 

'* P^'"- NICHOLAS NIOKLEBY. 

The expressioQ of a man'? face is commonly a 
help to his thoughts, or glossary on bis speech- 

NICHOLAS NICKLEBY. 



93 



NOTES 



Painters always rrjake ladies out prettier than 
they are, or they wouldn't get any custom. 

OLIVER TWIST. 

Anxious people often magnify an evil and ma^e 
it worse, • the old ouriosity shop. 



94 



NOTES 



Wbeo duty calls we must obey. bleak house. 

Every failure teaches a man something if he will 
learn, little dorrit. 



95 



SEP 15 1904 





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